10:28 PM,
Jul. 31, 2013

The Islamic Center of Murfreesboro held the grand opening ceremony for its new mosque on Veals Road Nov. 18, 2012.

Written by

Heidi Hall
Gannett Tennessee

Islamic Center of Murfreesboro members long have contended that legal objections to the way their new building earned county approval were smokescreens to disguise a bigger issue - the fear of what's happening inside.

If there ever was a smokescreen, this week's salvo lifted it.

By the fifth sheet of a 49-page document asking the Tennessee Supreme Court to hear a lawsuit over the mosque's construction, the plaintiffs accuse the mosque of ties to terrorist groups. It calls media reports of religious discrimination in Murfreesboro false, but then devotes later pages to arguing why two ...